'dzam bu'i gling

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'dzam bu'i gling

The name of the southern continent in Buddhist cosmology, which can mean the known world of humans, or more specifically the Indian subcontinent. A gigantic miraculous rose-apple tree at the source of the great Indian rivers is said to give the continent its name.

The present continent according to Buddhist world descriptions.

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